--- title: "10 Important Truths Quotes by 10 authors" description: "Browse 10 Important Truths quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Important Truths sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16d/henry-kirke-white-32778_child_we-should-teach-our-children-to-make-fri_725299.jpg" --- > [We should teach our children to make friends with us, to communicate all their thoughts to us ... by this we find…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-kirke-white/we-should-teach-our-children-to-make-friends-with-us-to-communicate/) [Henry Kirke White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-kirke-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16d/henry-kirke-white-32778_child_we-should-teach-our-children-to-make-fri_725299.jpg) > [My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-owen/my-life-was-not-useless-i-gave-important-truths-to-the-world-and-it/) [Robert Owen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-owen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa2/robert-owen-17328_disregarded_my-life-was-not-useless-i-gave-important_885662.png) > [You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tullian-tchividjian/you-can-be-sure-that-your-deepest-desires-reveal-important-truths/) [Tullian Tchividjian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tullian-tchividjian/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/736/tullian-tchividjian-1105_christian_you-can-be-sure-that-your-deepest-desire_1742577.png) > [The most important truths are likely to be those which society at that time least wants to hear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-h-auden/the-most-important-truths-are-likely-to-be-those-which-society-at/) [W. H. Auden](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-h-auden/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c42/w-h-auden-856_important_the-most-important-truths-are-likely-to_2589770.png) > [what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-de-botton/what-we-call-a-home-is-merely-any-place-that-succeeds-in-making-more/) [Alain de Botton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alain-de-botton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea4/alain-de-botton-221_architecture_what-we-call-a-home-is-merely-any-place_2775864.jpg) > [If we don't know that there is such a person as God, we don't know the first thing (the most important thing)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alvin-plantinga/if-we-don-t-know-that-there-is-such-a-person-as-god-we-don-t-know-the/) [Alvin Plantinga](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alvin-plantinga/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc5/alvin-plantinga-34486_depends_if-we-don-t-know-that-there-is-such-a-pe_1012385.jpg) > [Being in church so often, spending those hours sitting in front of a highly symbolic array of objects, hearing those beautiful texts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saunders/being-in-church-so-often-spending-those-hours-sitting-in-front-of-a/) [George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saunders/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cf/george-saunders-317_access_being-in-church-so-often-spending-those_2156906.jpg) > [Adam Smith, and other able writers to whom I have alluded, not having viewed correctly the principles of rent, have, it appears…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-ricardo/adam-smith-and-other-able-writers-to-whom-i-have-alluded-not-having/) [David Ricardo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-ricardo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe2/david-ricardo-9461_able_adam-smith-and-other-able-writers-to-who_3065210.jpg) > [Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-degrasse-tyson/emotional-truths-woven-by-lawyers-in-the-court-of-law-are-apparently/) [Neil deGrasse Tyson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-degrasse-tyson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac2/neil-degrasse-tyson-143_court_emotional-truths-woven-by-lawyers-in-the_2904990.png) > [Because we love the Lord, we should be spiritually sensitive to moments when the powerful and important truths of the gospel can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-russell-ballard/because-we-love-the-lord-we-should-be-spiritually-sensitive-to/) [M. Russell Ballard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-russell-ballard/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/930/m-russell-ballard-3129_all-time_because-we-love-the-lord-we-should-be-sp_252117.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/important-truths/#itemlist", "name": "Important Truths Quotes", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We should teach our children to make friends with us, to communicate all their thoughts to us ... by this we find many opportunities of teaching them important truths, almost without knowing.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Henry Kirke White" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-kirke-white/we-should-teach-our-children-to-make-friends-with-us-to-communicate/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16d/henry-kirke-white-32778_child_we-should-teach-our-children-to-make-fri_725299.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16d/henry-kirke-white-32778_child_we-should-teach-our-children-to-make-fri_725299.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16d/henry-kirke-white-32778_child_we-should-teach-our-children-to-make-fri_725299.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We should teach our children to make friends with us, to communicate all their thoughts to us ... by this we…” — Henry Kirke White", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. 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